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L'emploi du temps

France

2001

134 Min
Color
1.85:1
French
  • Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
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DIR Laurent Cantet

EXEC Barbara Letellier

PROD Caroline Benjo

SCR Laurent Cantet, Robin Campillo

DP Pierre Milon

CAST Aurélien Recoing, Karin Viard, Serge Livrozet, Jean-Pierre Mangeot, Monique Mangeot

ED Robin Campillo, Stephanie Leger

PROD DES Romain Denis

MUSIC Jocelyn Pook

Venice (Filmmakers of the Present): Don Quixote Award, Toronto, San Sebastián, New York, Sundance (World Cinema), Rotterdam, Karlovy Vary (Horizons), Stockholm (Competition)

Synopsis

Recently fired from his job, but unable to confess the truth to his close-knit family, Vincent spends his days driving around the countryside, talking into his cell phone and staring into space. Vincent fabricates a new job for himself so his family and friends will not know that he is out of work. At one point, he even sneaks into an office building. As Vincent roams the building’s sterile halls, peeking into meeting rooms where men are busy at work, we see a man who yearns not just for a new job, but also for a place in the world. While this pantomime of work initially registers as sad and even a little pathetic, it slowly and unnervingly becomes terrifying. –IMDb

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Laurent Cantet

Laurent Cantet is a French director, born on June 15, 1961 at Melle (Deux-Sèvres). His parents were schoolteachers in Ardilleux.

On 25 May 2008, he received the Palme d’Or at the Festival de Cannes 2008, for the movie Entre les murs. –Wikipedia 

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AdamantCocoon

19Aug11

Devastating. There are contrivances and concessions to sensationalism, but its portrait of vile self-deception guts (certainly not just cut) especially deep. I think it quickly rendered my first encounter with La graine et le mulet two days ago superfluous.

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HeadGEAR

10Aug10

Part psychological thriller and part domestic drama.

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Jose Sarmiento Hinojosa

29Mar10

Exceptional in its questioning about the role of work in human lifes. The final scene (along with the credits) is nothing short of mesmerizing.

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Paulv

21Feb10

Simply superb. Challenging and deeply moving it says something true about working life, family, commitment and the human spirit. Cantet has made one of the most powerful fims in recent memory.

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